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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD79IA030

1979-02-07 CINCINNATI, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6642L Piper PA-31 None

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

PIPER PA-31 · N6642L

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

E

Airport

GREATER CINCINNAT

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000031-580

Total time

5,095 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

8,118

Age

36

Investigator remarks

CABLE JUMPED OFF ELEV PULLEY.

Cause factors

75/A/CC A
SYSTEMS ELEVATOR AND ELEVATOR TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 5 0014. Source file NTSB_1979_5_0014.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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